Arts
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Lick Observatory field trip available to undergraduate students
Seeing and Knowing in Art and Astronomy offers undergraduates a chance to learn about the Lick Observatory’s history and take part in workshops.
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Alumna Anne Flett-Giordano Credits her Extraordinary Writing Career to One Crazy Night at Porter College
Growing up in Danville, California, Emmy Award-winning comedy screenplay writer and UC Santa Cruz, Porter College alum Anne Flett-Giordano got an early start on how to tell enthralling stories.
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Arts Dean’s Lecture Series to explore climate justice, art, activism, and the environment
“Climate Justice Now!–Art Activism, Environment Today” is the title of the 2016 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series–an array of free public talks running March 30 to May 25 at UC Santa Cruz.
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Other Minds donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
Other Minds—the acclaimed San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of new and experimental music—has donated its archives to UC Santa Cruz.
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Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus: Jim Clifford to give Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture
“In the Ecotone: The UC Santa Cruz Campus” is a new book by emeritus humanities professor Jim Clifford that reflects on the campus as an extraordinary architectural and ecological site.
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Alumni create moving tribute to movement
‘Muscle Memory’ is a multimedia undertaking exploring creativity, aging, and the gifts of the UC Santa Cruz dance program.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded four NEH grants
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support faculty research and the Dickens Project.
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LASER talk to spotlight research on pumas, filmmaking, river people, and ancient DNA
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first LASER talk of 2016 on Tuesday, February 2, on campus at the Digital Arts Research Center.
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Endangered species: American public libraries
Focusing his lens on shared commons that are under threat, alumnus Robert Dawson spent 21 years photographing 526 of the nation’s public libraries.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences to launch campuswide ‘Collective Museum’ Feb. 11
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) at UCSC will kick off its innovative first exhibition project–Collective Museum, by the Portland-based artist group Public Doors and Windows, Feb. 11.
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Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award
Last Day of Freedom, an animated short by UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones and San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of best documentary short.
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Craft becomes art for celebrated Kiowa artist and alumna
Alumna Teri Greeves uses the traditional skill of beadworking to tell stories in new ways, to create a new language that draws people together.